Select ‘Glass’ button now, hold the key with Retangular marquee tool selected. Draw(cut) across the lower half of the button like the image below.

Fill the selected area with white color #ffffff using Paint Bucket Tool

Adjust the opacity to 18%

and you should have glossy button looking like this.

4. Pattern Overlay

Lets give the button some slight pattern overlay. I’ll be using the custom stripe5px created earlier. Click here to read “How to create custom pattern“. Create a new layer call ‘Pattern’ in between ‘Button’ and ‘Glass’ and proceed with Blending Options.

Make sure you are still on Rectangular Marquee tool, hold and click on Button’s layer thumbnail to get the buttons shape. Fill up the selected area in ‘Pattern’ layer with Paint Bucket tool and adjust the layer opacity to 5%

5. Inserting Text

I’ll throw in some random text in white #ffffff color with the following settings